{"id":217,"date":"2009-02-20T23:16:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T12:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2009-02-20T23:16:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T12:16:10","slug":"086-dr-ross-church-hypervelocity-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"086 &#8211; Dr Ross Church &#8211; Hypervelocity Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard of hypervelocity stars?  These are amazingly fast stars.  How fast?  I talk to Dr Ross Church, from Monash University, who tells us all about them.  Topics of discussion include:<\/p>\n<p>What are hyper velocity stars?<br \/>\nHow do they form?<br \/>\nThe relationship between binary stars and hypervelocity stars<br \/>\nThe interactions between supermassive black holes and binary stars<br \/>\nAre hypervelocity stars all basically the same?<br \/>\nCould these stars join other galaxies?<br \/>\nCan hypervelocity stars collide with other stars in the plane of the galaxy?<br \/>\nWhat would happen if a hypervelocity star was heading towards us?  What would happen to the solar system?<br \/>\nHow many hypervelocity stars have we observed?  Are they common or uncommon?<br \/>\nHow do we find hypervelocity stars?<br \/>\nHow long do these stars live?<br \/>\nDo hypervelocity stars change the evolution of the galaxy at all?<br \/>\nWhat happens to the companion of the hypervelocity star?<\/p>\n<p>Also featured are listener of the episode, and listener feedback.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/audio.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/~brainsmatter\/BM086-Hypervelocity.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 86<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This episode of Brains Matter is brought to you by <a href=\"http:\/\/astronomy.swin.edu.au\/sao\">Swinburne Astronomy Online<\/a><br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/astronomy.swin.edu.au\/sao\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/SAOLogo.png?t=1212883097\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nPlease vote for this podcast this month at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/one_vote2.php?pod_id=40939\" title=\"Podcast Alley - Your Podcast Library\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/images\/podcastalley_icon.gif\" alt=\"PodcastAlley.com Feeds\" border=\"0\" height=\"15\" width=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=brainsmatterinbox%40gmail%2ecom&amp;no_shipping=2&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&amp;charset=UTF%2d8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/x-click-but04.gif\" alt=\"Donate via Paypal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can donate by clicking on the button above, and subscribe by <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=257301606\">subscribing in iTunes <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/iTunesWord.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard of hypervelocity stars? These are amazingly fast stars. How fast? I talk to Dr Ross Church, from Monash University, who tells us all about them. Topics of discussion include: What are hyper velocity stars? How do they form? The relationship between binary stars and hypervelocity stars The interactions between supermassive black holes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,16,20],"tags":[354,47,57,62,131,222,244,251],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}